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Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content
I have a confession, I pirate a lot of content. Mostly TV/Movies. That being said, piracy is pretty expensive.<p>I built a computer with ~30TB of hard drive space. That, conservatively, cost me $1200. It's an older computer, with a lot of hard drives and it's probably costing me around $45 per month in power. I'm going to want to add more storage space soon, and have about $500 slated for that. I pay a usenet subscription, and subscription to indexers, for let's say $10 per month...<p>So if I stopped pirating I'd have saved $1200 and still have a budget of $55 per month for streaming services.<p>So why do I still pirate? Well one thing is show availability. There are some must-have shows that simply aren't available in my region (not the US), so I already have to have the piracy infrastructure in place if I want to watch them.<p>I also very much appreciate having a local copy. It's not like steam where I can just download whatever I want and play it offline (I do mostly buy steam content, if it's on steam I probably don't bother to pirate).<p>Streaming services still have significant service problems that need to be addressed.
Show HN: Bike – macOS Native Outliner
Bike’s most original feature is the “fluid” text editing. Lots of text editors have animated some interactions (cursor movement, insert newline, etc), but I think Bike is the first designed from the ground up to support fluid editing.<p>Give it a try, it feels different. (movie on home page if you don't have Mac)<p>Other Features:<p>• In text mode Bike works like a normal text editor. In outline mode rows are constrained to outline hierarchy.<p>• .bike file format is HTML subset, so files are easy to parse and manipulate. Bike also supports .opml and .txt.<p>• Scriptable via AppleScript. Javascript plugin API also expected in future, though no timing on that.<p>• Architecture needed to support fluid editing also makes Bike faster/more scalable than most (all?) outliners and many text editors. I test performance using the Moby Dick Workout[^1].<p>Implementation Notes:<p>• View is built using CALayers[^2].<p>• Animations are performed by Core animation and Motion[^3] lib.<p>• View performance is determined by visible text, not document size.<p>Model representation is interesting in that it’s just a flat list of rows. Each row has a `level` property, outline structure is determined dynamically. View implementation requires that each row has a unique ID.<p>I’m using OrderedDictionary from Swift Collections[^4] to store rows. This is Bike’s performance bottleneck for large outlines. Eventually I may change to augmented b+tree and then should be able to work with gigabytes worth of outline. That will be fun, but not sure it’s actually needed. Already probably fast enough for 99% of use cases as is.<p>Hope you find Bike interesting. I’m happy to answer any questions.<p>[^1]: <a href="https://www.hogbaysoftware.com/posts/moby-dick-workout/" rel="nofollow">https://www.hogbaysoftware.com/posts/moby-dick-workout/</a><p>[^2]: <a href="https://developer.apple.com/documentation/quartzcore/calayer" rel="nofollow">https://developer.apple.com/documentation/quartzcore/calayer</a><p>[^3]: <a href="https://github.com/b3ll/Motion" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/b3ll/Motion</a><p>[^4]: <a href="https://github.com/apple/swift-collections" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/apple/swift-collections</a>
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